Jan Koum Quotes

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.

Thank God for Skype!

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.